I'm making a wooden unicycle

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hey yall, im back lol no but im doing a big project for school, adn im goign to make a wooden unicycle or a unicycle stand of sort, anyways i could use some help on what to do, if i make the actual unicycle i want to make EVERYTHING out of wood if possible, and being ridable would be cool not that id ride it at all, just on occasion like o hey i built this, adn it is ridable see,look adn thats it or soemthing, plz send DIRCT links ot pages with plans or soemthing that will help me ill check back later peace hommies u can also email me at mikevoss1990@hotmail or send a private message to me on here

-Mike

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I have definitely, definitely seen a picture of a wooden uni posted on here before.
It was a while back, but it does exist.

I didn’t dream it, did I?

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Hang on, mang… I think I heard something about a dude who made a wood uni once…
Lemme see…

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i think i saw one one time but it was JUST the fram itself on some munis i think so hm… i want to make EVERYTHING from wood though it doesnt have to have an adjustable seat or anything, casue i thought about it wouldnt be hard, but really weak
so yea one height, and i was thinking of doing liek a 24" wheel possibly hm…

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ITS THE JACKIE, havent seen u in forever
but yea i dont want this to spin off topic so lets search hiya, im still lookig but i cant find nothing

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Yeah, this whole thing was wood. Wheel, cranks, pedals, the works.

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awesome, im going to go i got to go take soem piccs. for photoclass so ill be back on tomorrow or late tonight
probably in a bit

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I found this. Still lookin’.

Not all wood but it could help.
Throw me a comment on Myspace man.
Peace

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Here’s another thread bout someone makin’ a wood uni. I didn’t read a single word but… it’s about wood unis!!

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how would you make wooden barrings?

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i should make one in industrial arts at my school

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…or i could just make a metal one

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its called a dowel rod.

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Anyone find the plans for the unicycle to whom which i could just make it?
Im looking for the plans for the pictue that waslinked at this -http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39757&highlight=wooden+unicycle
and if someone can give lpans for it or for another unicycle liek that, im making it in my woodshop class in my spare time.

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I think im gonna try to wing it, but the frame is easy part i needhelp on the tire part,adn theseat

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Dowels! Then just copy the design of a KH freeride seat and carve that out of a block of wood.

If you havent, you should draw out the design, will make things a lot easier.

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If you want to actually ride it I recommend using a very fat axle. All the wooden unicycles I’ve seen were made as art objects. Though they may have been functional, they would either wear out fast or break if you rode them. 100% Wood is not exactly the best material for making wheeled vehicles. At the very best, you’re going to have a heavy, wear-prone art object., so design accordingly!

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perhaps thick enough that the axel doubles as the crank arms?

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instead of a solid wheel you could use dowel spokes and laminate some veneer in the shape of the rim. you could probably use your rim as the jig for it. as for the spokes id suggest not having more than 10-20. and for the seat you could get a block and bandsaw it to shape then file/rasp it round.